Archive for February, 2008
“Cody, my main man!” exclaimed Todd seven minutes later upon seeing his friend exit the bus. He extended his arm, and they exchanged a handshake. “Was yesterday as loony for you as it was for me?”
“It wasn’t that bad for me,” Cody said. “Why, what happened to you?”
“I thought that everyone else knew that we’d gone back in time,” Todd said, chuckling. “I asked Scott what he thought about having to re-do all of his cross country races.”
“And what’d he say?”
“He laughed and called me a twerp. Then he went out for a run."
“What a guy,” Cody mused.
“Yeah, but he’s cool. He gave me his pep talk again,”
“Pep talk?”
“Yeah, at the beginning of the year he gave me this whole speech about Julie. He said ‘Look dweeb, any guy can land any broad, even you. Because I’m such a nice guy, I’m gonna give you some help with your chick… what’s her name? Jules? Julia? Whatever. Anyways, I’ll let you in on a little secret. Girls like stuff. The key to a girl’s heart is through your wallet. If you buy Jenna flowers, or cheap jewelry, or teddy bears, she’ll fall for you eventually. No girl can resist.’ ‘Really?’ I asked, and he said ‘Trust me, how do you think I got a date with Melissa Summers… what a babe she was too! Anyways, buy her stuff, and you’ll get your girl.’ ‘Are you sure?’ I asked, and he said ‘Don’t worry, Toddy, you’re learning from a master.’”
Cody nodded.
“So that’s where you get it from.”
Todd shrugged.
“Wait, did you say Melissa Summers was his girlfriend?” asked a confused Cody. “Wasn’t his girlfriend’s name Haley something-or-other?”
“Haley Seamson?” Todd laughed. “Nah, she was his October girlfriend. Haley replaced Melissa, and then he replaced her with Mary Thompson in November.”
Cody raised an eyebrow.
“Scott likes to switch it up every month or so. He says that having the same girl around for too long is boring.”
“So what does he think about you and Julie? You’ve been after her for two solid years now.”
“He says that these past two years don’t count, since we were never boyfriend and girlfriend. He tells me that I’m wasting too much effort on this one girl and that I should just give up.”
“Then why did he bother giving you that pep talk?”
“He wants to teach me a lesson, apparently. He says that once I date Julie for a little while, I’ll realize that she’s not that great and I’ll learn my lesson and never waste that much time on a girl again.”
“And you believe him?”
“Nah,” Todd admitted. “but here’s what I figure: Scott can get a new girl to fall for him every month effortlessly by acting how he does, right? So if I do what he does even half as good, I’ll have her as my girlfriend in two months. Before we went back in time, I was getting pretty close too.” Then Todd realized his predicament and smacked his forehead. “Oh geez!” he exclaimed. “We went back in time! That means I have to start all over again with her, don’t I?”
Cody nodded grimly.
“Aw man,” Todd said, looking down and kicking at a stone on the ground. “I almost had her,”
“Relax buddy,” Cody said, slapping his friend on the back. “You can do it again, and it’ll be even easier than last time because now you know what works and what doesn’t.”
This seemed to cheer Todd up.
“Heck, for Julie, I’ll wait another fifty months if I have to. Two more isn’t that bad. Besides, who else is there for me? The only other girl in our class that I speak to is Kelsey, and well…” he left the sentence unfinished, since there was no was to complete it without an awkward silence resulting.